Alternative for Branch?

[Zeustiak]

@Michael Noland;12482

Hi Zeustiak,

I can’t zoom in to see what exactly is going on, but I can’t help but think there might be a better approach, although it is very neatly laid out

Here is a better image of the branches:

Here is a general order of things:
Vector of tile-to-be-generated determined
Vector used in a Range Find to set Boolean variables relating to latitude and longitude
Branches used with lat/long Boolean variables to choose appropriate Climate and Geology Generation functions
Climate/Geology functions generate an instanced mesh according to ratios set for that climate(90/5/5-ocean/desert/jungle for Tropical(Lat) Ocean(Long))

@Michael Noland;12482

Hi Zeustiak,

There’s also switch on integer if you want to do something differently for -10…10 as you mentioned above, and another approach that can come in handy if each one is just picking data is to use an array as a data table.

For example, if you want to pick 20 different tiles based on a random roll, you could make an array of your 20 outcomes and index into it. You can get more complicated by doing things like having two arrays, one of items and another of probabilities (e.g., Tile1,7% Tile2,5%, etc…) and write a function that generates a random number and runs thru the array to pick which one based on your distribution.

Cheers,
Michael Noland

The interger switch looks a little better than the enum, though the branches are still more suitable I think.

Arrays look interesting. I read through the documentation a couple times, though I don’t quite fully understand how to insert them into my functions yet.

Given that the InRange(Float) outputs a boolean, I would probably need some way to convert that boolean to an int or something else if I want to get around the Branches.